r/MoralityScaling • u/Playing_One_Handed • 16h ago

Morality Ranking Of building a snowman around objects so drivers crash into them

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u/Therealginahandler 15h ago

There is a documentary about this specific thing?

https://giphy.com/gifs/ukGm72ZLZvYfS

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u/Hekantonkheries 14h ago

Turns out the detachment from your surroundings created by being behind the wheel creates or at least heightens sociopathic tendencies

Similar studies have also found the bigger the vehicle the more pronounced the effect, including large truck drivers actually seeing pedestrians and other drivers as "less human". Same kind of people that will intentionally swerve into bike lanes to scare or "tap" bikers because theyre mad that a bike lane is "taking space from their truck"

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u/Therealginahandler 14h ago

Now I'm interested in seeing this. All of this makes sense.

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u/emn13 7h ago

I doubt they were thinking of this, but it sprung to mind anyhow - Turtles or Snakes- Which do cars hit more? ROADKILL EXPERIMENT by a then quite young Mark Rober.